Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Moldova and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Echospace to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Freddie Wadling,
Aural Exciters,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mandrill,
Crime,
Television,
X-102,
The Red Krayola,
The Gap Band,
Brick,
Roxy Music,
Popol Vuh,
The Zeros,
Make Up,
Cluster,
the Sonics,
The Durutti Column,
The Slackers,
Pagans,
Mantronix,
Masters at Work,
Gang Starr,
Shoche,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lindisfarne,
Throbbing Gristle,
Terry Callier,
Faraquet,
Man Eating Sloth,
Banda Bassotti,
Ice-T,
The Martian,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Dead C,
Jimmy McGriff,
Absolute Body Control,
Organ,
Fad Gadget,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
KRS-One,
Ronan,
The Young Rascals,
Echospace,
Shuggie Otis,
Bizarre Inc.,
Nas,
The Sound,
Johnny Clarke,
Chrome,
Sister Nancy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Moleskins,
In Retrospect,
Hasil Adkins,
The Seeds,
Minor Threat,
DNA,
Idris Muhammad,
Radiohead,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.